just to say hi, am located in SOCALanyways, car is pretty much stock, except for a few mods;thorley headers on a hi flow cat and an LC engg muffleroffenhauser intake, stock carb for now with K&N filtersupra rims

hello, pretty much stock, aside from mods mentioned,
another one though, also replaced the clutch fan with a flex fan and adaptor from LC eng'g, hows the cobra? my plan if when the 22R quit is to swap in a 90-96 Lexus/toyota 1UZFE, ive seen a lot of these swap down under in australia, on anything toyota body, so thats in future

hello, pretty much stock, aside from mods mentioned, another one though, also replaced the clutch fan with a flex fan and adaptor from LC eng'g, hows the cobra? my plan if when the 22R quit is to swap in a 90-96 Lexus/toyota 1UZFE, ive seen a lot of these swap down under in australia, on anything toyota body, so thats in future

The Cobra swap is progressing. I have steering to finish. Very tight fit causing all kinds of interferences. I just picked up the remaining smog parts that were crushed in the donor car. That brings me to your next comment on your 1UZFE plans. Unlike the Aussies, keep in mind that you will have to use all the stock smog parts from your donor Lexus including the auto tranny and ECU. You will be converting your Celica to be the Lexus in every way for smog inspection. If you follow www.lextreme.com , a friend of mine is doing just that with a '83 RA65C Celica. I just do not care for automatic transmissions in any kind of performance vehicle because I like being able to overdrive it as you only can with a stick.

hi yes am aware of lextreme he is located near me, and all the 1UZ sites, also about the flea he s got a 72 corolla i think, yes smog stuff here, in calif, so got to deal with, yes if i do that ill just buy a whole car and get all the necessary parts,

also whats a good donor car for our celica to convert to steering rack ive heard of corolla AE86, and gen 3 celica with rack and pinion, but youre going the porsche route

I think you have to decide based on your research. It is subjective. You need a front sump engine to use MR2 or AE86 rear steer rack. You may also need to find LS400 SS exhaust manifolds and modify them to clear the steering shaft.

For me, I have a rear sump engine and happened one day to walk past a 944 in the U-pull J/Y that was the skeletal remains of a previous V8 conversion with the hood open calling out to me..... and it had a front steer manual rack just as I was searching to find. I am stuck with OE cast iron manifolds and knew my odds were better with front steer rack and pinion since that is how it is set up on the Mustang. I did not want to buy an aftermarket Mustang/Pinto rack and find out I hate the ratio or worse it does not fit. This was a cheap way for me to experiment and it looks like the best fit in my case with the Cobra engine and stock exhaust manifolds. It only works because I made a custom crossmember and did not modify a stock Toyota crossmember like Flea and others.

1981 Celica in US came with 22R and the rect port intake head. IIRC with RA43 as designation. My 1980 RA42 had the 20R but I retired a few blocks due to some unforeseen ventilation........ 8-O .... and ended up with a 20R/22R hybrid and used the 22R valve cover because it was a nicer casting than the 20R I had.